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-rw-r--r--src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c16
-rw-r--r--src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c18
-rw-r--r--src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c18
-rw-r--r--src/backend/postmaster/walwriter.c18
-rw-r--r--src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c3
5 files changed, 65 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c b/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
index 1b8cd7bacd4..19ba26b914e 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
@@ -495,6 +495,12 @@ AutoVacLauncherMain(int argc, char *argv[])
* If an exception is encountered, processing resumes here.
*
* This code is a stripped down version of PostgresMain error recovery.
+ *
+ * Note that we use sigsetjmp(..., 1), so that the prevailing signal mask
+ * (to wit, BlockSig) will be restored when longjmp'ing to here. Thus,
+ * signals will be blocked until we complete error recovery. It might
+ * seem that this policy makes the HOLD_INTERRUPTS() call redundant, but
+ * it is not since InterruptPending might be set already.
*/
if (sigsetjmp(local_sigjmp_buf, 1) != 0)
{
@@ -1550,7 +1556,15 @@ AutoVacWorkerMain(int argc, char *argv[])
/*
* If an exception is encountered, processing resumes here.
*
- * See notes in postgres.c about the design of this coding.
+ * Unlike most auxiliary processes, we don't attempt to continue
+ * processing after an error; we just clean up and exit. The autovac
+ * launcher is responsible for spawning another worker later.
+ *
+ * Note that we use sigsetjmp(..., 1), so that the prevailing signal mask
+ * (to wit, BlockSig) will be restored when longjmp'ing to here. Thus,
+ * signals will be blocked until we exit. It might seem that this policy
+ * makes the HOLD_INTERRUPTS() call redundant, but it is not since
+ * InterruptPending might be set already.
*/
if (sigsetjmp(local_sigjmp_buf, 1) != 0)
{
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c b/src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c
index 069e27e427f..c96568149fe 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c
@@ -115,8 +115,9 @@ BackgroundWriterMain(void)
*/
pqsignal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL);
- /* We allow SIGQUIT (quickdie) at all times */
+ /* We allow SIGQUIT (SignalHandlerForCrashExit) at all times */
sigdelset(&BlockSig, SIGQUIT);
+ PG_SETMASK(&BlockSig);
/*
* We just started, assume there has been either a shutdown or
@@ -140,7 +141,20 @@ BackgroundWriterMain(void)
/*
* If an exception is encountered, processing resumes here.
*
- * See notes in postgres.c about the design of this coding.
+ * You might wonder why this isn't coded as an infinite loop around a
+ * PG_TRY construct. The reason is that this is the bottom of the
+ * exception stack, and so with PG_TRY there would be no exception handler
+ * in force at all during the CATCH part. By leaving the outermost setjmp
+ * always active, we have at least some chance of recovering from an error
+ * during error recovery. (If we get into an infinite loop thereby, it
+ * will soon be stopped by overflow of elog.c's internal state stack.)
+ *
+ * Note that we use sigsetjmp(..., 1), so that the prevailing signal mask
+ * (to wit, BlockSig) will be restored when longjmp'ing to here. Thus,
+ * signals other than SIGQUIT will be blocked until we complete error
+ * recovery. It might seem that this policy makes the HOLD_INTERRUPTS()
+ * call redundant, but it is not since InterruptPending might be set
+ * already.
*/
if (sigsetjmp(local_sigjmp_buf, 1) != 0)
{
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c b/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
index 624a3238b80..45f5deca72e 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
@@ -209,8 +209,9 @@ CheckpointerMain(void)
*/
pqsignal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL);
- /* We allow SIGQUIT (quickdie) at all times */
+ /* We allow SIGQUIT (SignalHandlerForCrashExit) at all times */
sigdelset(&BlockSig, SIGQUIT);
+ PG_SETMASK(&BlockSig);
/*
* Initialize so that first time-driven event happens at the correct time.
@@ -231,7 +232,20 @@ CheckpointerMain(void)
/*
* If an exception is encountered, processing resumes here.
*
- * See notes in postgres.c about the design of this coding.
+ * You might wonder why this isn't coded as an infinite loop around a
+ * PG_TRY construct. The reason is that this is the bottom of the
+ * exception stack, and so with PG_TRY there would be no exception handler
+ * in force at all during the CATCH part. By leaving the outermost setjmp
+ * always active, we have at least some chance of recovering from an error
+ * during error recovery. (If we get into an infinite loop thereby, it
+ * will soon be stopped by overflow of elog.c's internal state stack.)
+ *
+ * Note that we use sigsetjmp(..., 1), so that the prevailing signal mask
+ * (to wit, BlockSig) will be restored when longjmp'ing to here. Thus,
+ * signals other than SIGQUIT will be blocked until we complete error
+ * recovery. It might seem that this policy makes the HOLD_INTERRUPTS()
+ * call redundant, but it is not since InterruptPending might be set
+ * already.
*/
if (sigsetjmp(local_sigjmp_buf, 1) != 0)
{
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/walwriter.c b/src/backend/postmaster/walwriter.c
index 45a2757969b..358c0916ac2 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/walwriter.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/walwriter.c
@@ -112,8 +112,9 @@ WalWriterMain(void)
*/
pqsignal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL);
- /* We allow SIGQUIT (quickdie) at all times */
+ /* We allow SIGQUIT (SignalHandlerForCrashExit) at all times */
sigdelset(&BlockSig, SIGQUIT);
+ PG_SETMASK(&BlockSig);
/*
* Create a memory context that we will do all our work in. We do this so
@@ -129,7 +130,20 @@ WalWriterMain(void)
/*
* If an exception is encountered, processing resumes here.
*
- * This code is heavily based on bgwriter.c, q.v.
+ * You might wonder why this isn't coded as an infinite loop around a
+ * PG_TRY construct. The reason is that this is the bottom of the
+ * exception stack, and so with PG_TRY there would be no exception handler
+ * in force at all during the CATCH part. By leaving the outermost setjmp
+ * always active, we have at least some chance of recovering from an error
+ * during error recovery. (If we get into an infinite loop thereby, it
+ * will soon be stopped by overflow of elog.c's internal state stack.)
+ *
+ * Note that we use sigsetjmp(..., 1), so that the prevailing signal mask
+ * (to wit, BlockSig) will be restored when longjmp'ing to here. Thus,
+ * signals other than SIGQUIT will be blocked until we complete error
+ * recovery. It might seem that this policy makes the HOLD_INTERRUPTS()
+ * call redundant, but it is not since InterruptPending might be set
+ * already.
*/
if (sigsetjmp(local_sigjmp_buf, 1) != 0)
{
diff --git a/src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c b/src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c
index 7c11e1ab44c..b180598507f 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c
@@ -279,8 +279,9 @@ WalReceiverMain(void)
/* Reset some signals that are accepted by postmaster but not here */
pqsignal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL);
- /* We allow SIGQUIT (quickdie) at all times */
+ /* We allow SIGQUIT (SignalHandlerForCrashExit) at all times */
sigdelset(&BlockSig, SIGQUIT);
+ PG_SETMASK(&BlockSig);
/* Load the libpq-specific functions */
load_file("libpqwalreceiver", false);